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News and Events

Webinar: Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Price Controls versus Economic Warfare: Hyperinflation and the Communist Revolution
Friday 1 April, 12-1pm

Webinar: Rebecca E. Karl (New York University) - The Socialist Law of Value and the Rural Economy: Wang Yanan and Marxism in China, 1950s
Friday 25 March, 12-1pm

Webinar: Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto) - Celebrating the Proletariat: May Day Strikes and Syntheses of Solidarity
Friday 4 March, 12-1pm

PhD position in Gyalrongic (Sino-Tibetan) descriptive and historical linguistics
Deadline for application: 31st March 2022

Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin Madison) - Back to the Future: Reflections on Tamil Marxism, Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Identity Politics
Friday 25 Feb, 4.30-5.30pm

Webinar: Li Shang (Swansea University) - A fresh look at Marx's understanding of the Asiatic mode of production
Friday 4 February 2022, 12-1pm

Webinar: Dr Yushu Geng - From Wise Mother/Good Wife to Tiger Mom: women in 20th century China
Tuesday 1st February 2022, 6pm

Webinar: Professor Nathan Hill - The word for 'tiger' in Chinese and other Asian languages
Monday 31st January 2022, 6pm
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Webinar: Dr Dong Jin Kim - Global Health Diplomacy and North Korea: Ending the Quarantine of Humanitarianism in 2022
Friday 28 January 2022, 6pm

Webinar: Alexander Statman - Ancient Wisdom and Unhistorical History: Hegel's Encounter with Chinese Philosophy
Thursday 27 January 2022, 6-7pm
Webinar: Gerald Roche (La Trobe University) - Language Oppression in China: What Does it Look Like?
Friday 26 November, noon-1pm

Webinar: James Leibold (La Trobe University) - Taming Mongolia: Xi Jinping’s Agenda for Coercive Nation Building in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
Friday 19 November, 11am-noon

Webinar: Dr Qi Zhang (Dublin City University) - The trilingual education for ethnic minorities: field studies of the Tujia, the Uyghurs and the Inner Mongolian
Friday 12 November, noon-1pm

Webinar: Naomi Yamada (Meiji) - Changing approaches to positive discrimination in education in China
Friday 5 November, noon-1pm
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Webinar: Wenyu Du (Beihang) -- AI-enabled digital transformation and innovation in China
20th October, 12pm-1pm

Webinar: Lin Boqiang (Xiamen University) Evolution of China’s Energy Policy
Thursday 14 October, 12pm

Webinar: Linda Tsung (Sydney) - Multi-model approaches in multilingual education in China
Friday 8 October, noon-1pm

Webinar: Julia C. Schneider (Cork) - Who belongs to the Chinese nation? Inclusion and exclusion in Chinese Republican historiography
Friday 1 October, noon-1pm